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Also Known As	Vibia Perpetua
Born	c.182
Died	March 7, 203 • Carthage
Notable Works	“The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity”

Hippolyte Delehaye

Belgian scholar

Edmond Goncourt

French author

Jules Goncourt

French author

Konrad Kujau

German author

Samuel Pepys

English diarist and naval administrator

James Boswell

Scottish biographer

André Gide

French writer

Eugène Delacroix

French artist

St. Athanasius

Egyptian theologian

St. Gregory of Tours

Frankish scholar

George Fox

English religious leader

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

American writer and aviator

Günter Grass

German writer

Anne Frank

German diarist

Frances Burney

British author

Adso of Montier-en-Der

Benedictine monk and abbot

Evelyn, oil painting by Robert Walker, 1648

John Evelyn

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Maria Dąbrowska

Polish author and critic

Fanny Kemble

British actress

Murasaki Shikibu

Japanese courtier and author

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